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development. Such practices, if allowed to happen, will lower
or jeopardize the quality of life of the new generations.
Besides, we must also think of how to control food quality, not
only for export, but for local consumption. As our standard of
living goes up, we must ensure that our people do not ingest
too much chemical that can endanger their health. We must
be concerned about such problems from now on.
The task ahead will be colossal. We must brace ourselves
to do what we can to build the capacity of our people to
participate in the new kind of development in the future. In the
next 15 years from now, we must start building the capacity of
the new generations at the pre-school, primary and secondary
schools levels and tertiary education levels. Thanks God,
we have been able to start our human resource development
program even before we launched SCORE.
Essentially, capacity building forms a very important part of the state’s
transformation towards the year 2020 and beyond. For this reason, we
have to build more training institutions, set up another skill development
centre and generally upgrade the standard of education in the state. We
also plan to engage foreign consultants to study how we can generally
upgrade the skills of the people in the state. In other words, we are
leveling ourselves based on the manpower requirements of the state in
preparation for SCORE, which is capable of creating 1.5 million jobs for
the people by the year 2020 and beyond.
Now, we have a workforce of one million people. In other words, we will
have one and half time more workforces with the development of SCORE. It
will take huge number of people to transform the countryside, now grossly
under-developed, to bring it to the mainstream of development. Perhaps,
the development of the central region may not be able take off without
having a huge undertaking, which emphasises on an integrated approach,
like the development of SCORE. Initially, we may have to recruit foreign
workers to do some of the jobs, those in the lower ranks in particular, as being
done in the Middle East and other fast developing countries. There will be
shortages not only of professionals but also skilled workers. Therefore, we
Youth participants of the YES Programme must start to train our people, based on rezoning to the business skills, to take
visiting the aluminium plant in Mukah.
over from foreigners in the future. With that kind of picture we must have the
right aptitude in managing our workforce.
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or jeopardize the quality of life of the new generations.
Besides, we must also think of how to control food quality, not
only for export, but for local consumption. As our standard of
living goes up, we must ensure that our people do not ingest
too much chemical that can endanger their health. We must
be concerned about such problems from now on.
The task ahead will be colossal. We must brace ourselves
to do what we can to build the capacity of our people to
participate in the new kind of development in the future. In the
next 15 years from now, we must start building the capacity of
the new generations at the pre-school, primary and secondary
schools levels and tertiary education levels. Thanks God,
we have been able to start our human resource development
program even before we launched SCORE.
Essentially, capacity building forms a very important part of the state’s
transformation towards the year 2020 and beyond. For this reason, we
have to build more training institutions, set up another skill development
centre and generally upgrade the standard of education in the state. We
also plan to engage foreign consultants to study how we can generally
upgrade the skills of the people in the state. In other words, we are
leveling ourselves based on the manpower requirements of the state in
preparation for SCORE, which is capable of creating 1.5 million jobs for
the people by the year 2020 and beyond.
Now, we have a workforce of one million people. In other words, we will
have one and half time more workforces with the development of SCORE. It
will take huge number of people to transform the countryside, now grossly
under-developed, to bring it to the mainstream of development. Perhaps,
the development of the central region may not be able take off without
having a huge undertaking, which emphasises on an integrated approach,
like the development of SCORE. Initially, we may have to recruit foreign
workers to do some of the jobs, those in the lower ranks in particular, as being
done in the Middle East and other fast developing countries. There will be
shortages not only of professionals but also skilled workers. Therefore, we
Youth participants of the YES Programme must start to train our people, based on rezoning to the business skills, to take
visiting the aluminium plant in Mukah.
over from foreigners in the future. With that kind of picture we must have the
right aptitude in managing our workforce.
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